Three piecesFrom part five, shoes and the reach
The part of the morning you dread is the bending, not the walking
There is one line in the shoes section of part five that people read twice. If putting shoes on requires bending in a way your knee hates, you will walk less. A long shoehorn removes a barrier you did not know was there. It is not really about the shoe. It is about whether the walk happens at all.
Three pieces. A molded sock aid with two cord handles, a long handled shoehorn with a wrist loop, and a folding aluminum reacher with a magnet and a rubber clamp head. Socks on sitting up, shoes on standing, and whatever is on the floor picked up without going down to it.
- Three pieces: sock aid, long shoehorn, folding reacher
- Socks and shoes on without bending down to your own foot
- The reacher folds, with a magnet for a dropped key or coin
- No fitting, no assembly, nothing to charge
Nothing to assemble, nothing to charge.
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What the three pieces are for
Part five's answer to a low cupboard is the same as its answer to weeding a border: a long handle, done standing.
The sock, sitting up
The sock goes over the molded shell, the shell goes to the floor on its two cords, your foot goes in and you pull straight up. The knee stays where it is and the back stays where it is. This is the piece people call fussy for two days and then keep by the bed.
The shoe, standing
A long shoehorn is the difference between a shoe that goes on and a shoe whose heel you have been crushing for a year. Part five is clear that a shoe you have to fight is a reason to walk less, and the walking is the thing you are protecting.
The floor, without the floor
Long handled tools are part five's answer to weeding, and the same logic runs indoors. The bottom cupboard, the thing behind the sofa, the sock that missed the basket. Every one of those is a squat you do not have to perform.
The three minute version
The sock aid is the piece that feels like a maneuver for a week. Give it the week.
- 1
Sock over the shell
Work the sock down over the molded piece so the heel sits at the back and the opening stays wide. Lower it to the floor by the cords, just in front of your foot.
- 2
Foot in, pull straight up
Slide your foot in as far as it goes, then pull both cords up together. The shell slides out and leaves the sock on the foot. Sit tall and let the cords do it rather than leaning down to meet them.
- 3
Shoehorn last
Horn behind the heel, foot in, slide it out. Part five's other half of this is the shoe itself: one that stays on without your toes gripping, with a sole that is not slippery, that you can get on without a fight.
The specifics
- In the kit
- Sock aid, long handled shoehorn, folding reacher
- Sock aid
- Molded shell with two cord handles
- Shoehorn
- Long handled, with a wrist loop
- Reacher
- Folding aluminum, magnet tip and a rubber clamp head
- Kit weight
- About 1 lb 6 oz, 624 g
- Branding
- None. Plain plastic and aluminum
Questions
Is this the kit that gets sold as a recovery kit?
Almost every big listing in this category attaches itself to a hospital procedure. We are not going to. We are not a medical supplier, we make no claims about recovery, and if a clinician has given you instructions, follow those rather than a product page. What we sell it for is the ordinary version of the problem, which is that bending to your own foot is the part of the morning you would rather skip.
Will I use it, or will it end up in a cupboard?
The shoehorn gets used from the first day. The sock aid takes about a week to stop feeling like a maneuver, in exactly the way the floor transfer in part five does. If a week is more patience than you have for it, the ninety days are there.
Is the reacher sturdy enough to lift something heavy?
It is a folding aluminum arm with a rubber clamp head and a magnet on the tip. It is made for a sock, a remote, a dropped coin, a light tin from the back of a low cupboard. It is not a lifting tool and nothing on this page suggests it is.
Will the sock aid work with compression stockings?
Thin socks go on easily. Thick or tight ones, compression stockings included, are hard work on any sock aid and this one is no exception. If compression stockings are the reason you are buying, buy from a supplier who fits them.
Give it a week, then ninety days
Part five says the same thing about the floor transfer. The first week it feels like a procedure, by the third week it is simply how you do it. If it has not earned its place by the bed inside ninety days, send it back for a refund. Return postage is yours.